Hide and Seek by Desiree Holt

Author:Desiree Holt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2017-04-10T15:02:52+00:00

Chapter 9

Logan didn’t know if he should try to talk to Devon on the drive home or if silence was better. God only knew he’d seen plenty of people in shock before. Usually it happened when they were confronted by death or extreme violence of some kind. The episode on the road, the phone calls, the explosion on the boat, and someone ransacking Lady Hannah were bad enough. Now came the news about her father. Although Vigilance was still digging, it was patently clear Graham Cole had been involved in something less than legal.

Somehow she’d found an inner strength to keep it together, but she looked like she was sliding down to the end of her rope. She sat beside him still as a statue and so pale he wondered if she was going to pass out.

“I can feel you thinking.” Her voice was quiet, but stronger than he’d expected. “I’m okay.”

“I know you are. You’ve just had some information thrown at you that would be hard for anyone to absorb.”

“I’m good. Really. I think I’m tired more than anything. I didn’t sleep well last night. Plus the past two days have been unsettling to say the least.”

His heart turned over. Everything she did, everything she said, reminded him so much of Amanda. The same strength. The same determination. The same unwillingness to let situations defeat her. He’d known a lot of women who thought they were strong, yet who either crumbled at the first sign of disaster or lost it altogether.

And he wanted to talk to her about what happened between them…was happening. He hoped like hell he didn’t scare her off but it was there between them, and he knew she felt it, too.

As soon as they were in the house he reset the alarm, then took a mug down from the cupboard.

“I think I’ll combine both of Avery’s prescriptions. Just sit at the table for a minute while I get it ready.”

He watched her lower herself into a chair, slowly as if she might fall over. He didn’t bother with Avery’s tea bags, instead using a pod for the fancy machine on the counter. While it brewed, he headed into the den and returned with a bottle of bourbon.

“I spotted this when I was checking out the den yesterday. I think it’s just what Dr. Malik prescribes.”

She managed a tiny smile. “Dr. Malik writes good prescriptions.”

When everything was ready, he set the mug in front of her. “Drink slowly, it’s hot. But drink it all down.”

He went over to the computer on the counter, tapped some keys, and began scrolling through the camera footage for the time they’d been gone. He tapped a few more keys and the screen returned to normal. “No news is good news. No visitors while we were gone.”

“You thought someone might have tried to break in?” she asked.

“Yes.” He bit off the word. “They want the location of your father. They probably think he left some clue here.”

“But you didn’t find anything when you looked,” she reminded him.

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